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The Taoist Stands Up

So, yes, I'm a Taoist A lotta' people ask me about what that means, to be a Taoist. And, I usually ask What do you mean, what does it mean? Who said it was supposed to mean anything, or even everything? You must be a notnot Taoist, everything's supposed to mean something. Well, you're always goin' on about the bad-boy nihilists and their WinLose economic and political games of climate pathology as if this is more dissonant noise, so I guess I figured, if you're against nihilism, then you have to be for some meaning or purpose, maybe even some grand polypathically inclusive design, ecologically sustainable repurpose, who knows? But, you know, something... and not just nothing. Oh, sorry. I think you meant to ask me what I am for. If you recall, you asked what does it mean to be a Taoist, originally Yes? Well, if you're a Taoist, and that means not a nihilist, then aren't those two ways of asking the same question of your existential meaning? Oh, Lord, I hope not! Taoism is about as existential as high school math is ecologically organic. I'm not sure I follow either half of those organic chemistry equations, but anyway, are you avoiding my curiosity question? Oh no! Sorry, yes, the question about what does it mean to me to be a Taoist? Well, that's the tricky wu-wei part, there are an infinite number of ways I might define this (0)-soul revolutionary-integrative-unitarian-syncretic-consilient-synergetic pie, but, essentially, if you realize that to become a Taoist also means to notnot be a LeftBrain DominatingYang AntiEarth Taoist, then you begin to RightBrain get the economic and political, as ecological and nutritional and healthy and climate health and creation story of YangSpaceLeft/YinTimeRight EcoBalancing Tao (0)'s SpaceTime for a better Revolutionary TransMillennial History of Health Conjecture. OK, there for a minute you had me, but I still get hung up on the co-arising nondual ecosystemic geometry of zeroism stuff, not to mention the equivalent resonance of Group with Game Theory. Not to worry. If any of that is important toward your own polypath, then it's also notnot ego/eco-balancing, LeftYang with Elder Right Yintegral. We're all on the same DNA/RNA multiculturing as polyculturingly nutritional evolutionary journey. Well, no, I mean I'm not intending to necessarily join your Taoist Tribe. That is fortunate, as I'm sure you are much too busy in your own notnot Taoist Left-Right climate health journey. Hope everything zero-sum balances out for you, sooner, rather than more climate pathology later.

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